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S3 Flowshield: Why does my video take forever to load?

May 7, 2012 By Dave Leave a Comment

Since this has tripped me up twice – with no excuse for the second time since Flowshield support had given me the friggin’ answer two months prior – I figured I’d post this here so I can find it again. The reason it takes forever for videos to start playing in Flowshield is because of [...]

Filed Under: Genesis, WordPress

I’m just going to drop this right here

April 26, 2012 By Dave Leave a Comment

So that if we ever get around to writing a new widget plugin from scratch, we’ll know where to look for guidance.

Filed Under: WordPress

Add ‘first’ and ‘last’ classes to nav items

April 13, 2012 By Dave Leave a Comment

This comes in handy when you need to target the left and right (or top and bottom) ends of your navigation. Add it to your functions.php file.

Filed Under: Snippets, WordPress

Remove Post Meta or Post Info from Custom Post Types

April 6, 2012 By Dave Leave a Comment

It happens fairly often that we have a client who needs a custom post type as well as the usual blog/news feature. We need post meta and/or post info to show up for the news posts, but we don’t need that information on the custom post type since that information tends to be fairly static, [...]

Filed Under: Snippets, Types and Views, WordPress

Add Genesis SEO and Layout Options to CPTs

April 5, 2012 By Dave Leave a Comment

This is quick and easy. When you create a custom post type while running the Genesis framework, you won’t get Genesis’ built-in SEO controls or layout options. Add this to functions.php and they’ll show up.

Filed Under: Genesis, Snippets, Types and Views, WordPress

Remove Items from WordPress Admin

April 2, 2012 By Dave Leave a Comment

Sometimes our clients don’t need access to everything WordPress offers — most often, the Links and Comments areas. Rather than deal with the confusion, we just hide what they don’t need: